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The world of libraries is being shaken by the digital age, changing patterns of readership, information retrieval, perhaps even brain circuitry. The dance toward the digital drew archivists from around the world to Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for a workshop on technology and archival processing.

A prominent feminist artist of the 20th Century, Judy Chicago is turning seventy-five this year, and celebrating with a series of retrospectives, publications, and associated events scattered across the country, including an exhibit at Radcliffe's Schlesinger Library.

The Harvard Gazette speaks with Huda Zurayk, a professor in the department of epidemiology and population health at the American University of Beirut, who has spent years trying to promote health in the Arab world.

Scholars and leading Africanist thinkers gathered to reflect on the life and legacy of the late Nelson Mandela. One of the panels included Adam Habib (from left), Achille Mbembe, Margaret Marshall, and Jean Comaroff. Photo by Rose Lincoln.

Harvard scholars and leading Africanist thinkers gathered to remember and celebrate the life and heroic legacy of the anti-apartheid activist and inspirational world leader, Nelson Mandela, who died in December. The Radcliffe Institute co-sponsored the remembrance.

Composer Hans Tutschku, Harvard's Fanny P. Mason Professor of Music and director of Harvard's Studio for Electroacoustic Composition, is indulging his fascination with the visual arts in a new exhibit as part of his Radcliffe fellowship.

Crimson photo of "Homage and Schwitters" an interactive sound sculpture that sits in front of multiple photo installations as part of "The Other Side" exhibit by Hans Tutschku at the Radcliffe Institute.

In a lecture at the Radcliffe Institute titled, "Synthetic: How Life Got Made," fellow Sophia Roosth described her analysis of recent attempts at "de-extinction," the effort to recreate extinct or endangered species using modern technologies.